Tomorrow's News Today

Arts and Industries Building. Smithsonian Institution photo.

The Post has a thought-provoking piece by Blake Gopnik on how the Smithsonian Museums should utilize the Arts & Industries Building as a place for blockbuster exhibits. See tomorrow, "Central Jewel in the Smithsonian Crown? Arts and Industries Building Would Make A Fine Major Exhibit Hall."

The NY Times real estate section, not distributed in DC, has four good articles:

Dith Pran/The New York Times. Improvements to Lawrenceville's Main Street, financed by the town and private donations, helped to recruit businesses to fill empty storefronts.

Heading Into the Future by Reclaiming the Past about the success of Lawrence Township, NJ, in particular its Main Street program

a nice piece on rowhouses, with particular attention to variety within the basic styles, in the Streetscapes column by Christopher Gray, "A Dozen 1888 Brownstones, Where Variety Reigns."

John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times. 128, 126, 124 and 122 East 95th today. The original residents had their choice of red or buff brick; brown, olive or gray stone; round, bay, oval or arched windows; and rooflines with peaks, gables or corbels.

Goodbye, Suburbs -- "For some, it's a disaster, and they race back to the city as fast as they can," which demonstrates that the idyll in the suburbs "American Dream" is not a dream for all.

And the New York Times weighs in on the success of Philadelphia's tax credit program for new residential construction and the adaptive reuse into housing of former manufacturing buildings (discussed last week in this blog), in the article "Tax Breaks Drive a Philadelphia Boom."


Index Keywords: sprawl; arts-culture; urban-revitalization